Pan African Hour

This show started in April 2008 as the West African Hour, with hosts DJ Dreeky Freek (AKA: DJ Sasparilla) and DJ Spooky Luke. Back then, DJ Spooky Luke ruled the show with an iron fist and did not permit DJ Sasparilla to play anything that was not from West Africa. Thankfully he was redeployed to Edmonton where he now hosts the show Hip-Hop Spread on the Planet Bread with DJ Rankin' B (AKA: Steel Wolf)on CJSR. This power vaccuum created a state of total chaos, allowing the sweetness of the DJ Sassafrass to suffuse. Quickly the DJ's took many pleasure cruises around the African continent, and even across the Atlantic into the African diaspora (The Caribbean and the Americas). Soon we wholly adopted this cosmopolitan outlook changing our name in November of 2008 to the Pan-African Hour. The same show but more imposing, and way funnier. To hear our old shows check out radioscum.blogspot.com, where you can also hear Hip-Hop Spread on the Planet Bread as well as fellow CJLO show Eat My Country (DJ Alberta Bertha and DJ Edmonchuk). Besides learning about and hearing African and African-based music, this show includes guest spots from the future, fast hands in a game of dice, live feeds from international swamps, intergalactic space battles, and amateur rapping courtesy of us.
contact the show at: pah@cjlo.com just to talk, or for DJ bookings for Bar Mitzvahs, funerals, childrens birthday parties, and any other event that involves cake (for us) or swamps (for you (preferably international swamps (for you))).


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This show features our friend from Edmonton DJ Rankin' B, who delivers the knowledge on the history of Jamaican music.

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Here we break up a snobby cocktail party and roll dice to decide what music to play. Hilarity ensues and children make noise.

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The ten best compilations from 2000 to 2009. From Columbian cumbia to Ghanian funk, lots of music from the glorious 70's.

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ArtistSong Title
SkatalitesScandal Ska
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SibotBang on the Drum
SizzlaGrow U Locks
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WaaberiShubahada
J.Period and K'naanLet Me Introduce Me
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Sorry BambaPorry
SkatalitesSilver Dollar
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Orquesta NarvaezSabiduria
Compay SegundoSan Luisera
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Seu JorgeSuffragette City
Super EaglesLove's A Real Thing
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Sean Kuti & Egypt 80Think Africa
Paulino De CastroA Cabeca

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Hey PAH fans! I just put up new audio today, including a show that DJ Sassafrass and I (DJ Sasparilla) did on Dec 2, just a bit before the new year. This show features songs from a top ten list which we compiled at CJLO's suggestion. The list features compilations which came out between 2000 and 2009 and which feature music from Africa or the African Diaspora, mostly from the 70's. This is definitely one of our better shows and I encourage you to check it out (see above). If you don't have any African music in your collection, or your looking to bring some African music into your collection, these albums are great choices! I list the top ten below as well as honourable mentions which are basically just as wicked. I also encourage you to check out the record...

Hey, welcome to the Pan-African Hour page for 2010! On this show we explore all types of music from Africa, as well as types of music that have developed in the Carribean, Central America and South America that reflect African sources. We have a special penchant for African music from the 1960's and the 1970's, a time before synthesizers, the "world music" market, and econcomic declines throughout Africa affected the many styles of the continent. Right now DJ Sassafrass is off in Ukraine eating kubasa and drinking vodka, so I, DJ Sasparilla, will be hosting some shows alone, but mostly with my good friend Leslie Crusher. We try to be informative on the PAH, but we also are pretty ridiculous alot of the time. Look out for a special series I'm putting together called the Essential Guide...

ArtistSong Title
Aboulaye Kone et Bolokan PercussionsBarika
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Pee FroissDjalgaty
AJ CambellTake A Ride
CUTVCUTV
marvelous darknessMarvelous Darkness
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Tunji Oyelena...